Field, Barron (1786-1846)

Born London, 23 October 1786; died Torquay, England, 11 April, 1846.

F.L.S.,1825. Judge of the Supreme Court of N.S. Wales, 1816-24

Sent plants to Hooker. Jackson 400, Proc. Linn. Soc., i, 298; Exotic Flora, t. 222. Dict . Nat. Biog. xviii, 399. The above particulars are taken from (1). The most signal service he performed for Australian botanists consists in the publication of his "Geographical Memoirs on New South Wales etc." (London, 1825). He thus saved some valuable papers read before the Philosophical Society of Australia, more than one of which is of value to the botanist.